Stephen Teniers, a world-renowned composer and unorthodox Episcopal priest, meets Sera Watie, and they fall in love. Sera is on the brink of being chosen as the key foreign policy advisor to a leading Presidential candidate. So, how could a relationship between such highly successful people turn out to be problematic? Stephen is of European descent; Sera is of African.A major musical composition based on the life of Thomas Jefferson - counterpoised with that of Emily Dickinson - historic figures who vividly come to life in the novel, becomes critical and personal as Stephen and Sera face the troubling strains of race in America, from its founding to current day. An exciting work that captures the historical, social, religious and political complexities and juxtapositions of today's world in a compelling, heart-wrenching story of two people in love.
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